Getting parenthood right (enough)

A recent column in The Parent `Hood

By Heidi Stevens

There are a million wrong ways to parent -- and, it seems, just as many people standing at the ready to point them out for us.

Fortunately, there are a lot of right ways to do it. Which is why we’re cautious about relying too heavily on one manual, one blog, one philosophy. How can a singular approach work every time when you’re working with little humans -- whose whims and moods and tastes and brains are changing by the minute?

With that in mind, we created The Parent ’Hood, a weekly column found in your Sunday section that takes your parenting questions and presents them to a panel of moms and dads and a variety of experts—authors, educators, psychologists, activists. The result is a lively debate on everything from arguing politics in front of your kids to imaginary pals to a BFF whose parents buy her Every. Thing. She. Wants. (Seriously, Mom! Everything!)

We’d love to have your voice in the mix. Email your questions to parenthood@tribune.com. Find “The Parent 'Hood” page on Facebook. Turn to the column each week and weigh in with your own solutions.

Nobody has this parenting stuff completely figured out. But maybe, just maybe, if we put our heads together we can figure it out collectively. One week at a time.